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(2008) |
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"Rarely has a film been so serious in its underlying implications and intent, and yet so moronic in its execution."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"In Philippe's entertaining, not entirely mocking documentary, a Trekkie sub-culture holds a mirror to human society at large."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"By most standards, this would count as a moody and sophisticated thriller - but it just does not quite live up to the Cronenberg promise."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"if it gets people talking about youth violence, class conflict and the gulf of social inequality in Britain, then all the better - and if it does not, at least it will give them a frightening, albeit derivative, ride."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"a dark treat which, far from patronising us with excessive exposition, leaves plenty of room in which the viewer can either wither or flourish"
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"With ensemble performances as intense as its drama, The Edge of Heaven leaves the viewer, like Nejat, sitting and waiting in patient awe for an end that will blow in either heavenly reconciliation or hellish oblivion."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2005) |
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"it is youth, in all its contrariness, folly and passion, that The Edukators ultimately celebrates."
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Movie Gazette |
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(1976) |
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"this is the best restoration possible given the neglect and deterioration suffered by the film's original negatives."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1976) |
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"Watkins' most experimental work is also his most accessible, painting a complex but compelling portrait of a man ill at ease with himself and his times."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1970) |
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"a mystic trip through political, religious and philosophical terrains, gunning down all normative notions of what the western - or indeed Western civilisation - is supposed to be."
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Eye for Film |
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(2005) |
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"Hardly the Citizen Kane of superhero films - but Elektra is better than DareDevil, and a LOT better than Catwoman."
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"a hybrid of the morbid and the mordant, the decadent and the darkly delicious, which will not necessarily make you happy, but will certainly leave you satisfied."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2003) |
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"An intelligent reflection on Columbine, preferring difficult questions to easy answers, with the sort of quiet subtlety that one would never expect from an elephant."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"Half the problem with this trippy mix of sadism, satanism and social commentary is that so little is unexpected... [Coffin Joe] is a spent force."
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Eye for Film |
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(2004) |
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"a film of tender hues, quiet intensity and elegiac melancholy that you may well find lingering in your own memory."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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"A tale of obsession with less hot air than your average thriller."
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Movie Gazette |
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(1976) |
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"...unwrap this baby and you will discover a whole universe of untold depths and hidden textures in which to become trapped, lost or sublimely elevated. Lynch's debut feature is freakish perfection."
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Channel 4 Film |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Three is a crowd, and Wong and Soderbergh would have got along just fine without Antonioni there to wreck the marriage."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1981) |
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"a sadistic melange of cartoon villains, mutant monsters, over-the-top action set-pieces and ultra-violent sensationalism - in fact, the closest that Australian cinema ever came to the spirit of Jess Franco."
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Eye for Film |
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(1981) |
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"viewing the film today is akin to having one's sense of youthful nostalgia violated. ...the terrible dialogue, patchy pacing and silly costumes, so easily overlooked during one's wild-eyed teen years, now seem so much more obvious and distracting."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"Here, the visceral, the intellectual and the spiritual all come together, elevating The Escapist beyond merely escapist entertainment, and offering something that any viewer can dig."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2004) |
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"ultimately a sentimental romance - but never cloyingly so thanks to a mood of melancholy which none of the madcap mindgames ever quite manages to erase."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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"any pleasant taste left in your mouth by the vaguely sentimental ending will soon turn sour (or at least tart) if you think about it for long enough."
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Eye for Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"while the film, concerned as it is with the brotherhood of man, is undoubtedly humanist in its philosophy, there are enough shades of grey to cast long shadows over its apparently sunny outlook."
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Eye for Film |
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(2003) |
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"A morally complex tale of the 'class' struggle, set in a 1950s boarding school."
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Movie Gazette |
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(1981) |
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"a satisfying blend of Revenge of the Nerds and satanism"
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"a moody crime drama that doubles as a revolutionary political allegory - ringing the changes on China's evolving reunification even as it longs for a future that will return to the noblest values of the past."
[movie review] |
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musicOMH.com |
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(2005) |
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"Derrickson's film has been overtaken by bland characters, cheap shocks, kindergarten theology and a pace so plodding that viewers will be left wondering whether it is just Erin's watch that has mysteriously stopped."
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Eye for Film |
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(2004) |
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"carves out its own niche by combining the Christian horror of the original with the cruelties and crassness of colonialism."
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Movie Gazette |
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(1959) |
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"ends up occupying uncharted territories somewhere between the gothic horrors of Frankenstein, the fairytale lyricism of La Belle et la Bete, and the charnel-house realism of Franju's own abbatoir-set documentary Le Sang Des Betes."
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Eye for Film |
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